Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man , which stars Paul Rudd, won the weekend box office derby with a $58 million debut, but that total was, for Marvel Studios, tiny, like the diminutive superhero himself.

Longtime comic artist (and occasional writer) Alan Kupperberg passed away in California last night from thymus cancer.

Presented here are 12 covers for Marvel’s Hip-Hop variant collection which begins releasing in October.

Comic-Con News: DC Entertainment released a plethora of announcements before and during San Diego Comic Con, and here we round-up those that weren’t covered individually, as well as present a list of links to individual stories.

This week Bennett gives his highlights from the San Diego Comic-Con news.

Catalyst Game Labs has announced a new boardgame that reverses the traditional resource management game, entitled Wrath of Dragons . Release is planned for October.

Comic-Con News: Red 5 Comics has announced a series of OGNs based on the 1995 neo-noir film The Usual Suspects. The first title is the prequel Keyser Soze: Scorched Earth.

Reaper Miniatures has launched its third Bones miniatures Kickstarter campaign, and like the previous two this one reached its funding goals almost immediately, and is well on track for breaking into the coveted Top 10.

Comic-Con News: On the eve of the San Diego Comic-Con, DC Comics announced eight new six-issue miniseries that will appear in 2016.

Dynamite announced Warren Ellis as writer for its James Bond 007 comic, a licensing deal with Atari, Garth Ennis’s new creator-owned series A Train Called Love, a retrospective art book of artist Jose “Pepe” Gonzalez, and the art team on Aliens/Vampirella.